Page 89 of Falling Together

When Blair set Erin back down on the ground, she leaned in and kissed her, and it was the greatest kiss of her entire life. It was somehow even better now that she knew she could kiss this woman whenever she wanted. When their mouths opened to each other and their tongues met, Blair had only one thing on her mind. She moved her hands down Erin’s back and grabbed her ass, then started to bring her hands around front.

Erin grabbed onto her hands before she could continue with what her body was begging for. She kept her mouth just inches from Blair’s as she spoke. “Your mom really is bringing Nolan back here right after they get ice cream, so we’ll have to save that for later. I hope you don’t mind being tired at work tomorrow though, because I don’t plan on letting you get much sleep tonight.” She kissed Blair deeply, but pulled back much too quickly. “I have something to give you.”

Blair laughed. “What else could you possibly have for me? You’ve already given me everything I could ever dream of.”

“It’s nothing to get overly excited about. I promise.” Erin’s face turned red as she pulled herself away from Blair’s embrace and picked up a small bag sitting on the coffee table. She looked toward the ground as she handed the bag to Blair. “Now, I’m kind of wondering what I was thinking. If this doesn’t scare you away, nothing will.”

Erin laughed softly, and the sound was music to Blair’s ears. She took the bag in one hand, then used the other to push the bottom of Erin’s chin to force her to look at her. “Nothing in this world could ever scare me away from you.”

When Blair took the tissue paper out of the bag and saw what was inside, the tears she had done so well holding back fell freely from her eyes. She picked up the black frame that said “Family” across the top and studied the picture. It was a picture of her, Erin, and Nolan at the beach. Nolan was sitting on her shoulders blowing bubbles and Erin was watching the two of them with all the adoration in the world. Blair had seen the version of this picture where they were all smiling at the camera, but this one was so much better.

“Erin, I—” Her voice cracked, and the words refused to come out.

Erin also had tears in her eyes, but instead of wiping her own, she used her thumbs to remove the tears from Blair’s cheeks. “When I had my talk with Bianca, I realized something I probably should’ve a long time ago. Bianca was meant to be in my life to give me Nolan, but you, me, and Nolan…wewere meant to be a family.”

“Are you trying to kill me?” Blair laughed through her tears. “This is absolutely perfect. I’m literally speechless.”

Erin ran her fingers over the picture. “I love this one. When I first saw it, it freaked me out because of the way I’m looking at you. That’s why I never showed it to you. But now, I’m pretty sure it’s my favorite picture of all time. It’s veryus.” She laughed as she pointed to Nolan. “He was so annoying with those freaking bubbles.”

Blair laughed along with her. “He really was.” Blair ran her fingers along the picture as well. “He’s cute though. I think I might love that kid even more than I love you.” Blair snapped her mouth shut. This certainly wasn’t how or when she planned on telling Erin that she loved her, but now that she said the words, she couldn’t take them back. Especially since she had never spoken anything truer in her life.

Erin’s eyes went wide. “You love me?” she asked, sounding truly surprised.

Blair laughed as more happy tears poured from her eyes. There was no use trying to stop them, because the emotions running through her body were more than she could handle. “You mean it’s not obvious? I guess I’m just going to have to work a little harder to show you.”

Erin lifted an eyebrow at her. “Oh yeah? How do you plan to do that?”

“In all the ways, babe.” Blair kissed across Erin’s neck and stopped after placing one lone kiss on her lips, because there was something else she needed to say. “Also, don’t feel like you have to say I love you soon just because I said it. I understand it might take you a while. I won’t get offend—”

Erin cut Blair off with her boisterous laughter. “Blair, I just told you that I want us to be a family. I skipped about 10,000 steps and broke so many dating rules. Obviously, I love you.”

Blair brought her hand to Erin’s chest and enjoyed the rhythm of her heart rapidly beating up against it. A heart that was beating for her. She could hardly believe it was real. “Are you still scared?”

Erin nodded, but the smile never left her face. “I’m terrified. But you’re worth it.”

There was so much Blair wanted to say, but she didn’t get the chance because there was a knock at the door at that very moment. “I’m guessing that’s my parents and Nolan.” She pointed at everything hanging from the ceiling. “I think they might figure out what happened here. I hope that’s okay with you.”

Erin’s face turned the cutest shade of red. “Your mom kind of already knows. I couldn’t really hide it when I asked her if she could take Nolan for us for a little bit.”

Blair threw her head back in laughter. Not that it wasthatfunny, but because she was just so fucking happy. “I knew you two were conspiring behind my back.”

Erin pointed at the door. “I guess we better let them in.”

Blair reached out her hand toward Erin, who readily accepted it, and they walked to the door hand in hand. Blair was pleasantly surprised when Erin didn’t drop her hand when she opened the door.

Nolan ran right past them and stared up at the pieces of paper hanging from the ceiling. “Why’s those hanging?”

“Well, buddy,” Erin knelt to the ground, but instead of letting go of Blair’s hand, she pulled Blair down with her. “Those are there because I asked Blair to be my girlfriend. Do you know what that means?” When Nolan shook his head, Erin shared a quick smile with Blair before focusing her attention back on him. “Well, it means Blair is going to be around a lot more often.”

Nolan looked between the two of them and furrowed his eyebrows. “But Bear’s already here all the time.”

Both Blair and Erin broke into a fit of laughter at the same time, which in turn, made Nolan laugh. Blair was so absorbed in this moment with Erin and Nolan that she almost forgot her parents were still standing there until her mom cleared her throat.

Blair tickled Nolan’s side before quickly standing to her feet.

Her mom gave her a knowing smile and wink. “We better get going.”

The goofy smile on her dad’s face probably matched how Blair’s face looked right now. “Yes. You all have a good night.”

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